Romantic Relationships

The Psychology Unit  of ATINER organizes a Special Session on “Romantic Relationships” as part of the 17^th Annual International Conference on Psychology, 22-25 May 2023, Athens, Greece sponsored by the Athens Journal of Social Sciences.

Relationships, especially close relationships, have a significant place in human being life. It is one of the basic human needs and a romantic relationship is one of these close relationships that has the power to increase happiness (Hendrick, 2004) and life satisfaction (Argyle, 1987). Adults search a romantic relationship and then they try to maintain it. Some factors as intimacy level, involvement, similarities between partners and physical attractiveness, can affect the maintenance of a satisfactory relationship. Some people continue their relationship with high satisfaction and this relationship could be helpful to have some other positive results such as well-being and life satisfaction. Some people could not maintain their relationship satisfactory because of some incidents such as infidelity. In this session the participants will be presenting subjects related the romantic relationships and will be showing how a relationship could be reason of happiness or how a relationship could be source of pain. You may participate as presenter of one paper, or observer.

Please submit an abstract (email only) to: atiner@atiner.gr, using the abstract submission form by 11 April 2023 to: Dr. Selin Onayli, Research Fellow, ATINER.. Abstracts should include the following: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, Current Position, an email address, and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions are reached within 4 weeks.

If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. organize a stream, chair a session, review papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email  to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER (president@atiner.gr).